Śivasaṃhitā 3.109

Padmāsana — the lotus posture — receives here its most direct declaration: sarvavyādhivināśanam, ‘destroyer of all diseases’. The text neither qualifies nor limits this claim. The posture is not simply a comfortable support for meditation but an active therapeutic agent elevated to the rank of panacea.

The compound sarvavyādhivināśanam deserves analysis: sarva (‘all’), vyādhi (‘disease’, an Āyurvedic medical term implying imbalance of the doṣa), and vināśana (‘destruction’, ‘elimination’). The root naś with prefix vi- indicates complete annihilation, not mere reduction. The scope is absolute.

This claim connects with Āyurvedic theory, according to which correct bodily posture regulates the flow of prāṇa through the nāḍī, preventing energetic blockages that, in traditional Indian medicine, are the underlying cause of disease. Padmāsana stabilizes the spine, balances the doṣa, and facilitates the circulation of ascending prāṇa.